Question by fefe:

a professional safe and vault technician, meaning safe cracker.
what kind of degrees do i need? criminal justice? =/ or what kind of experience do i need? (working for a locksmith or something? or thats not what i need?)

basically, i kinda want to be a safe cracker that cracks safe for the police–doing police work. does anyone know how much they make?

i got this idea when watching the italian job. haha. well i’m just curious that’s all =)

Da Man of Da Hour asked:

Its a beaut lol. fuuuudge.
I’m a stupid 18 year old kid who does stupid things. When I first got the car 6 months ago, I locked myself in and tried to
open the passenger’s side door with a hanger and made it
worse. I just tried to go out for a bite to eat when I was trying to put my key in my driver’s side it wouldnt turn! It was hellaaa hard. I even hurt my fingers trying to turn the damn lock. It may have been a crackhead trying to steel my beatiful car and couldnt get IN! lol. Getting in the car without breaking a window is super hard. Not even a Professional Experienced Locksmith could open it the first time. i had to open it by calling the old owner and obtaining a copy of the keys.

Anyways. I figured that I will have to replace both locks now.
What would it cost me laborwise? I found the parts online for 55$ Bones pluz shipping & Handling. What about Labor?
Fuuuuudge this really sucks. I hadent got payed all week and when I did, this happens. :0(
Why do bad things happen to good kids who smoke pot?

junel e asked:

Thirteen pirates put their treasure in a safe. They decide that the safe should be able to be opened if any majority of pirates agree but not be able to be opened if any minority agree. The pirates don’t trust each other so they consult a locksmith. The locksmith puts a specific number of locks on the safe such that every lock must be opened to open the safe. Then he distributes keys to the pirates such that every pirate has some but not all of the keys. Any given lock can have multiple keys but any given key can only open one lock. What is the least number of locks required?

kalistburg asked:

I’m looking into becoming a locksmith, but I cannot figure out what they earn a year. Most of what I found comes from European sites and whatnot. Can anyone answer this question not pertaining to Europe?

Question by mat c:

I cannot afford a locksmith,any ideas on how to do it myself

Question by Betty:

Lost the keys and a locksmith is going to charge over $100 to come out and make a key.

janeyphillips77 asked:

My key is stuck in my ignition. Anyone know a good way to get it out without calling a locksmith?

Question by Sarah C:

Any guesses as to how much it’d cost to have a locksmith come and open the safety security box at a bank? My parents lost the key and the bank doesn’t have a spare key to the security box, it has my birth certificate and social security card in it. :-\
Could someone give a ballpark estimate rather than ‘expensive’?

alicet222 asked:

I pet sit & live in her house while she travels & she pays me half ($25 a day) what the kennel charges her. Her dog was wetting on the floor sometimes so she told me to keep all the doors in the hall closed. I closed a bathroom door that I had never locked before by pulling it towards me from the outside. My fingers didn’t touch the lock on the other side. Later I found it had locked; the key didn’t open it & nothing I tried worked. I called her & she said to call a locksmith. Later she charged me 1/3 of his bill since she said the door had never locked on her before! I told her the guy said the lock had been installed upside down inside the handle & he repaired it. I feel she was punishing me by making me pay part of the bill when it wasn’t my fault in the first place. I wouldn’t have closed the door if she hadn’t told me to. She has millions of $ while I just manage to get by each month. Her lock is repaired & I’m resentful. She’s always been dominating & I’m always shy.

alasia83 asked:

I’ve lost the key to my back door. From doing a search on the internet I think it’s a mortise lock – the lock looks like this, and is locked with a similar type of key as the one in this picture: http://www.sz-wholesale.com/uploadFiles/060325102137s.jpg – I’m a bit broke at the moment and would rather not have to pay to get a locksmith in – it’s not important that I unlock this door as I don’t use it very often; in fact the only reason I’d like to be able to open the door is for easier access to my back garden to take the bins out once a week. Bit of a pain having to go the long way round, through the front door! Is there any way to get the door open (without breaking windows etc), without causing any/much damage to the door? I’ve tried using a credit card to force the lock open but the doorframe overlaps the gap between the door and frame,so it’s difficult to get the card all the way in. I can’t see whether the card is going in between the lock and frame, or just bending. Any ideas?
I forgot to say; it’s quite a new lock as I had to change them when my ex ‘messed up’ my old lock by superglueing it! He’d also tried to force the door open so as a result, the door frame is a bit chipped – there are dents in the frame around the area of the lock, and the door is a bit loose in the frame or something – you can push the door so far and rattle it. Would this help in opening the door in any way? Prising it open or something?
Yeah but I’m not even slightly mechanically minded, and would never be able to figure out how to unlock a door with a hair pin! I’d get as far as sticking the pin in the lock and jiggling it about a bit…but I doubt that’d work! And breaking the door down would be painful (I’m female, and quite slim) and expensive. I can’tr afford to get a new door at the moment…